EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Health and Care

EPSRC 数字健康与护理博士培训中心

• 批准号: EP/S023704/1
• 金额: $ 844.36万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FS023704%2F1
• 关键词: EPSRC; Centre; Doctoral; Training; Digital

Society is battling with an explosion of health conditions that need long-term management. These chronic conditions occur at all ages: UK children have some of the world's highest levels of both asthma and type 1 diabetes and, with a third of the UK's school children leaving primary education obese, there are huge concerns over type 2 diabetes at all ages; in any year, working age men and women in the UK have a 12% chance of a diagnosed mental health issue such as anxiety, depression and post-natal depression; conditions including dementia, Parkinson's disease and frailty are rapidly increasing in later years. Low-cost, connected, digital technologies are increasingly seen as vital to the understanding, prevention, diagnosis and management of these conditions for months and years in the community. These digital technologies, such as smartphone apps, wearables, blood sugar monitors - and a near future of Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as smart home systems (e.g. Echo), smart meters and connected appliances - offer an unprecedented opportunity to monitor a patient's condition within their community. With the data processed by artificial intelligence they will deliver decision support to health and care professionals; predict or detect a patient's symptoms worsening; support independent living; deliver behavioural and even pharmaceutical interventions; and allow the efficacy of treatments to be monitored. This cannot be business as usual for doctoral education since a digital health technology is likely to require a highly multidisciplinary understanding of technologies spanning software engineering, microelectronics, data communication, signal processing, machine learning and visualisation. Achieving actual patient benefit requires user-centred/driven design, a broad understanding of health and care, psychology, physiology, ethics, regulation, health economics and the design of clinical trials.To meet the challenge and seize the opportunity, the UK needs to nurture leadership that will span this hugely multidisciplinary space - combining technological depth with broad appreciation of the health landscape; empathy with the patient's needs with an eye to business models that underpin adoption; ambition to accelerate innovation with a principled commitment to ethics, inclusivity, regulation, data security and privacy. The opportunity and the challenge for this Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Digital Health and Care is to be bigger than the sum of its parts; to physically co-locate a cohort of students from Engineering & Computer Sciences and Health & Life Sciences; to bridge the disciplinary gaps, work with key external partners, foster better understandings and activate peer-to-peer learning within the cohort itself. Bristol is the perfect place to train future leaders at this disciplinary interface, building on £30M of digital health research at the University since 2013. Our proposed CDT will develop team-players with the skills to work effectively with experts from other disciplines, with patients and with the public. In a space where issues of trust, privacy, transparency, accountability and inclusion are absolutely fundamental, the CDT will not only embrace Responsible Innovation but influence and lead best practice nationally and internationally.The CDT will build on a variety of established relationships; with small and medium sized businesses, technology companies, big pharmaceutical companies, charities, universities, one of the UK's largest public science centres (WeTheCurious), Bristol City Council, and with the public. This CDT is therefore envisaged as a multidisciplinary community of students and academics that will create exciting research projects and will build networks of individuals across academia, industry and the NHS at all levels. It will sow the seeds of future collaborative research and of commercialisation activities.

社会正在与需要长期管理的健康状况爆炸作斗争。这些慢性疾病发生在所有年龄段：英国儿童的哮喘和1型糖尿病水平都是世界上最高的，并且英国三分之一的学龄儿童在小学教育结束时肥胖，因此所有年龄段的2型糖尿病都存在巨大的担忧;在任何一年，英国工作年龄的男性和女性有12%的机会被诊断出患有焦虑，抑郁和产后抑郁症等心理健康问题;包括痴呆症、帕金森病和虚弱在内的疾病在晚年迅速增加。低成本、互联的数字技术越来越被视为对社区中这些疾病的理解、预防、诊断和管理至关重要。这些数字技术，如智能手机应用程序，可穿戴设备，血糖监测仪-以及不久的将来的物联网（IoT）设备，如智能家居系统（如Echo），智能电表和联网家电-为监测社区内的患者状况提供了前所未有的机会。通过人工智能处理的数据，它们将为卫生和护理专业人员提供决策支持;预测或检测患者的症状恶化;支持独立生活;提供行为甚至药物干预;并允许监测治疗效果。对于博士教育来说，这不可能像往常一样，因为数字健康技术可能需要对软件工程，微电子，数据通信，信号处理，机器学习和可视化技术的高度多学科理解。实现实际的患者利益需要以用户为中心/驱动的设计，对健康和护理、心理学、生理学、伦理学、法规、卫生经济学和临床试验设计的广泛理解。为了迎接挑战并抓住机遇，英国需要培养能够跨越这个巨大的多学科领域的领导力-将技术深度与对健康领域的广泛理解相结合;同情患者的需求，着眼于支持采用的商业模式;通过对道德、包容性、监管、数据安全和隐私的原则性承诺，加速创新的雄心。这个数字健康与护理博士培训中心（CDT）的机遇和挑战是大于其各部分的总和;物理上共同定位工程与计算机科学和健康与生命科学的学生群体;弥合学科差距，与关键外部合作伙伴合作，促进更好的理解并激活队列内部的对等学习。布里斯托是培养未来领导者在这个学科接口的理想场所，自2013年以来，在大学的数字健康研究£ 3000万的基础上。我们提议的CDT将培养具有与其他学科的专家、患者和公众有效合作技能的团队成员。在一个信任、隐私、透明度、问责制和包容性问题绝对至关重要的领域，CDT不仅将接受负责任的创新，而且将在国内和国际上影响和引领最佳实践。CDT将建立各种既定关系;中小企业、科技公司、大型制药公司、慈善机构、大学，英国最大的公共科学中心之一（WeTheCurious）、布里斯托市理事会以及公众。因此，该CDT被设想为学生和学者的多学科社区，将创建令人兴奋的研究项目，并将在各级建立学术界，工业界和NHS的个人网络。它将为未来的合作研究和商业化活动播下种子。